Leadership

Laura Kepley

Laura Kepley became Artistic Director of Cleveland Play House in 2013 and has directed numerous CPH mainstage productions including The Diary of Anne Frank, Shakespeare in Love; The Crucible; Steel Magnolias;The Good Peaches (world premiere); Fairfield (world premiere); How I Learned to Drive (also at Syracuse Stage); The Little Foxes; Venus in Fur; Good People (also at Syracuse Stage); A Carol for Cleveland (world premiere); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; My Name is Asher Lev and CPH readings of Roe Green Award-winning plays Soups, Stews and Casseroles: 1976; Marjorie Prime and Daphne’s Dive. She joined CPH in 2010, having arrived from Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island where she was Resident Director and Artistic Associate for four seasons and Interim Director of the Brown/Trinity Rep M.F.A. in Directing Program for one. She has also directed for The Alliance Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Contemporary American Theatre Festival, among others. A native Ohioan, Laura received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and her Master of Fine Arts from Brown University/Trinity Rep. She is a Drama League Fellow and a recipient of the 2009-2011 National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program for Directors.

Kevin Moore

Kevin Moore became Managing Director of Cleveland Play House in 2007. During his tenure, CPH made its historic relocation to the Allen Theatre in partnership with Playhouse Square and Cleveland State University. He serves on the Board of Directors of Theatre Forward and the Membership Committee of the Commission on Economic Inclusion. From 1998 to 2007, Moore was managing director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where he helped lead that company in the funding and construction of an award-winning new theatre facility. Previous positions include Director of Marketing at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California. He is a former president of both the National New Play Network and the League of Washington Theatres. Moore teaches theatre management at CSU, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Theater at Case Western Reserve University and is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Arts Management. He is a graduate of Moorhead (Minnesota) State University, holds a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Indiana University and is a member of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2009.

Robert Barry Fleming

Robert Barry Fleming (Associate Artistic Director) comes to Cleveland Play House from Arena Stage where he was the Director of Artistic Programming under Molly Smith. He has worked as a director, choreographer and actor in many of the leading resident theaters across the country including The Public Theatre, The Taper, The Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and The Old Globe. His work has been represented on Broadway (Stand-Up Tragedy, Ragtime), television and film including the Oscar-winner L.A. Confidential. He was an associate producer for the NYC revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif, and served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department at the University of San Diego (also teaching in The Old Globe USD Graduate Acting MFA Program). Robert was a SDCF Charles Abbott Directing Fellow, San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award winner, is a two-time honoree of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical and a Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Choreography for a Play for Karen Zacarias’ Destiny of Desire at Arena Stage.